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A not-for-profit, volunteer based charity whose purpose is to find a cure for Parkinson's disease through research, advocacy, education and support services. Parkinson Society Canadas leads initiatives that include: raising funds for research through national events; funding research, movement disorder clinics, and outreach programs across Canada; staffing a national Information and Referral Centre; developing educational and information materials; providing up to date detailed information about Parkinson's disease; and providing support for regional partners to better meet the needs of people living with Parkinson's services. Researchers can apply for various funding awards and fellowships by following the funding process outlined by Parkinson Society Canada.

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Software application designed to facilitate meta-analysis of large datasets (such as several whole genome scans) in a convenient, rapid and memory efficient manner. (entry from Genetic Analysis Software)

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• 14 years ago - by Anonymous

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on August 19,2025. A downstream variant annotation program that can effectively classify variants by region (e.g. exon, intron, etc), predict amino acid change type (e.g. synonymous, non-synonymous mutation, etc), and prioritize mutation effects (e.g. CDS versus 5?UTR, etc). Major features: * The pipeline accepts the VCF (Variant Call Format) input file in tab-delimited format and processes the vcf input file containing all cases (G5, lowFreq, and novel) * The variant mapping step has the option of letting users select whether they want to report the bp distance between each identified intron variant and its nearby exon * The pipeline can deal with VCF files called by different SAMTools versions (0.1.18 and older ones) and also offers flexibility in dealing with vcf input files generated using SAMTools with two or three samples * The spreadsheet result file contains full protein sequences for both ref and alt alleles, which makes it easier for downstream protein structure/function analysis tools to take

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on August 26, 2016. The NeuroFed resource is a listing of neuroscience research funding contacts in the Federal government. It is an informal compendium (PDF) of names and contact information for nearly 300 research grant and scientific review administrators in 21 organizational units of the federal government. An electronic (PDF) version of the most recent update of this list is available on the Society for Neuroscience website at: http://www.sfn.org/index.aspx?pagename=professionalDevelopment_training. The list is updated annually by NIH personnel.

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Open source interactive software application for three dimentional medical images, manual delineation of anatomical regions of interest, and performing automatic image segmentation. Used for delineating anatomical structures and regions in MRI, CT and other 3D biomedical imaging data.WebGL-based viewer for volumetric data. It is capable of displaying arbitrary (non axis-aligned) cross-sectional views of volumetric data, as well as 3-D meshes and line-segment based models (skeletons).

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on August 19,2025. Online portal with educational resources such as videos, images, diagrams, and descriptions of basal ganglia activity. The model also includes interactions with areas of prefrontal cortex to examine BG roles in higher level cognitive functions such as working memory, attentional shifting, and decision making.

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Online portal with resources for education about hydrocephalus as well as community resources for those directly affected, family, and friends. The portal includes a community membership opportunity for people and families affected by hydrocephalus.

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Matlab toolbox that implements the wavelet-based image fusion technique for orthogonal images, introduced in (Aganj et al, MRM 2012).

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

Lab that studies multiple levels of computational modeling and experimental work to understand the neural mechanisms underlying reinforcement learning, decision making and cognitive control.

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A Python and BioPython-based tool to generate metadata for single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) for easy filtering, or submission to SNP databases. Information reported includes gene name, whether the SNP is coding or noncoding, and whether the SNP is synonymous or nonsynonymous. SNPMeta outputs in either a dbSNP submission report format, or a tab-delimited format. There is a also Web-based version available that only annotates with default settings, and only annotates a maximum of 20 SNPs at one time. The script may be downloaded for full functionality.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on April 28,2023. Platform for Neuroscientists to describe neurons and neural circuitry. Registered users may edit. The ultimate goal is advance the field of Neuromics by creating an encyclopedia of neurons and neural circuitry. NOTE: The database is no longer being maintained due to lack of funding.

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A software program for functional annotation of genomic single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) which is available to download as a single file executable for WINDOWS users with limited computational experience and as a Python script for Mac OS and Linux users. It needs only a tab delimited text file containing SNP locations, reference nucleotide and SNPs in different strains along with a reference genome sequence in standard GenBank or EMBL format. It annotates SNPs as synonymous, non-synonymous or nonsense. Non-synonymous SNPs in start and stop codons are separated as non-start and non-stop SNPs, respectively. SNPs in overlapping features are annotated separately for each feature and multiple nucleotide polymorphisms (MNPs) within a codon are combined prior to annotation. A workflow has also been developed for use in Galaxy to map short reads to a reference genome and extract and annotate the SNPs.

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Website which allows data from completed clinical trials to be distributed to investigators and public. Researchers can download de-identified data from completed NIDA clinical trial studies to conduct analyses that improve quality of drug abuse treatment. Incorporates data from Division of Therapeutics and Medical Consequences and Center for Clinical Trials Network.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. NIH tombstone webpage lists Project Period : 2009 - 2013. NIH funded project to create EEG and MEG ontologies and ontology based tools. These resources will be used to support representation, classification, and meta-analysis of brain electromagnetic data. Three pillars of NEMO are: DATA, ONTOLOGY, and DATABASE. NEMO data consist of raw EEG, averaged EEG (ERPs), and ERP data analysis results. NEMO ontologies include concepts related to ERP data (including spatial and temporal features of ERP patterns), data provenance, and cognitive and linguistic paradigms that were used to collect data. NEMO database portal is large repository that stores NEMO consortium data, data analysis results, and data provenance. EEG and MEG ontologies and ontology-based tools to support representation, classification, and meta-analysis of brain electromagnetic data. Raw EEG and ERP data may be uploaded to the NEMO FTP site., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

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Data and biospecimen from Rett Syndrome patients shared with the scientific community with the ability to visualize the list of available samples and select those with specific clinical and molecular features. It also contains information on biospecimen samples from x-linked retardation, microdeletion, duplication syndromes, autosomal MR, and retinoblastoma. The bank is active since 1998 and it is located in the Medical Genetics Unit, at the University Hospital of Siena. The bank is divided in three distinct sections: # Rett Syndrome. This section contains samples from patients affected by Rett syndrome, a neurodegenerative disease affecting almost exclusively girls with an estimated frequency of 1:10000-15000 live born. By accessing the section users can see a list of all patients available with their phenotype, the specific MECP2 or CDKL5 mutation if known and the kind of biological samples available for each patient. The availability of this large panel of patients is potentially important for the clarification of the molecular bases of Rett syndrome. In fact, a 20-30 of Rett cases do not have MECP2 or CDKL5 mutations. These patients might bear intronic/promoter MECP2 or CDKL5 mutations or they might have alterations in one or more genes different from MECP2 or CDKL5, as suggested by the identification of various chromosomal rearrangements. To confirm a causative role of these rearrangements, and to identify the relevant gene/s, it is important to collect a great number of patients in which to search for overlapping rearrangements or point mutations in candidate genes. # X-Linked Mental Retardation. This section contains samples collected by the centers belonging to the Italian network on X-linked mental retardation, which includes the laboratory of bank curators (for specific information on the network goals and organization, go to the section page). Mental retardation (MR) is the most frequent cause of serious handicap in humans with an estimated prevalence of 0,3-0,5 for moderate to severe MR (IQ<50) which increases to 1-1,5 when mild MR (IQ 50-70) is included. It is calculated that about 20-25 of mentally retarded males have a mutation in a gene on the X chromosome (X-linked mental retardation). X-linked mental retardation is a genetically heterogeneous condition. This is particularly true for the non-syndromic form (MRX), where MR is the only consistent clinical finding and no distinctive features between patients exist. In this situation the only possibility to group patients from different families is represented by linkage analysis, which needs the availability of large families. However, families linked to the same region demonstrate different causative genes. In these conditions, the number of patients available for analysis is a discriminating factor since a large number of patients need to be tested in order to fully confirm or exclude the involvement of a gene in MRX. # Other. This section of the bank contains biological materials and clinical data of patients with other genetic disorders (different from Rett and X-linked mental retardation). Part of this section is dedicated to Alport syndrome. Services: * Isolation of leukocytes from human peripheral blood samples * Establishment of EBV transformed lymphoblastoid cell lines from human peripheral blood leukocytes. * DNA extraction. * Plasma isolation. * Storage: ** Cryo-preservation of transformed cell lines and primary leukocytes at 135��C ** Storage of DNA at 20 degrees C ** Storage of plasma at 20 degrees C * Distribution of the stored biological samples.

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A software tool for pairwise sequence alignment with a single gap.

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The Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Foundation is a non-profit corporation whose purpose is to foster the exchange of research on neural information processing systems in their biological, technological, mathematical, and theoretical aspects. Neural information processing is a field which benefits from a combined view of biological, physical, mathematical, and computational sciences. The primary focus of the NIPS Foundation is the presentation of a continuing series of professional meetings known as the Neural Information Processing Systems Conference, held over the years at various locations in the United States and Canada.

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Project portal for publishing, citing, sharing and discovering research data. Software, protocols, and community connections for creating research data repositories that automate professional archival practices, guarantee long term preservation, and enable researchers to share, retain control of, and receive web visibility and formal academic citations for their data contributions. Researchers, data authors, publishers, data distributors, and affiliated institutions all receive appropriate credit. Hosts multiple dataverses. Each dataverse contains studies or collections of studies, and each study contains cataloging information that describes the data plus the actual data files and complementary files. Data related to social sciences, health, medicine, humanities or other sciences with an emphasis in human behavior are uploaded to the IQSS Dataverse Network (Harvard). You can create your own dataverse for free and start adding studies for your data files and complementary material (documents, software, etc). You may install your own Dataverse Network for your University or organization.

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XPPAUT is a tool for solving differential equations, difference equations, delay equations, functional equations, boundary value problems, and stochastic equations. It evolved from a chapter written by John Rinzel and me on the qualitative theory of nerve membranes and eventually became a commercial product for MSDOS computers called PHASEPLANE. It is now available as a program running under X11 and Windows. The code brings together a number of useful algorithms and is extremely portable. All the graphics and interface are written completely in Xlib which explains the somewhat idiosyncratic and primitive widgets interface. XPP contains the code for the popular bifurcation program, AUTO . Thus, you can switch back and forth between XPP and AUTO, using the values of one program in the other and vice-versa. I have put a ``friendly&apos;&apos; face on AUTO as well. You do not need to know much about it to play around with it. XPP has the capabilities for handling up to 590 differential equations. There are over a dozen solvers including several for stiff systems, a solver for integral equations and a symplectic solver. Up to 10 graphics windows can be visible at once and a variety of color combinations is supported. PostScript output is supported as well as GIF and animator GIF movies Post processing is easy and includes the ability to make histograms, FFTs and applying functions to columns of your data. Equilibria and linear stability as well as one-dimensional invariant sets can be computed. Nullclines and flow fields aid in the qualitative understanding of two-dimensional models. Poincare maps and equations on cylinders and tori are also supported. Some useful averaging theory tricks and various methods for dealing with coupled oscillators are included primarily because that is what I do for a living. Equations with Dirac delta functions are allowable. I have added an animation package that allows you to create animated versions of your simulations, such as a little pendulum moving back and forth or lamprey swimming. See toys! for examples. There is a curve-fitter based on the Marquardt-Levenberg algorithm which lets you fit data points to the solutions to dynamical systems. It is possible to automatically generate &quot;movies&apos;&apos; of three-dimensional views of attractors or parametric changes in the attractor as some parameters vary. Dynamically link to external subroutines XPP has been successfully compiled on a SPARC II under OpenLook, a SPARC 1.5 running generic X, a NeXT running X11R4, a DEC 5000, a PC using Linux or Windows, and SGI and an HP 730. It also runs under Win95/NT/98 if you have an X-Server. I cannot vouch for other platforms but it has been compiled on the IBM RS6000. Building XPP requires only the standard C compiler, and Xlib. Look at the any README files that come with the distribution for solutions to common compilation problems.

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Analysis methodology that allows simultaneous quantification and normalization of reverse phase protein array (RPPA) data.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous